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The first place I ever saw professional baseball, Padres farm club in the early 70's. Randy Jones pitched and I won a $10 CD at a local bank. Yes, ten dollars. There was some parking over the left field fence and homeruns were known to crack/smash windshields.

Sure is (I grew up just a few miles up from there, & my dad's family is from outside Shreveport), but Alexandria is pretty much the definition of central Louisana. (I just checked a map to maie sure I wasn't losing my mind; in my mind's eye, it's actually a lot more southern than it is.)

My only real impression of Alexandria is that it was a pretty hazardous place to be driving through late one night in 1989 when I ran over a big-ass rock in the middle of a highway construction zone while en route to SW Arkansas from the New Orleans area to see my sister, who was scheduled for surgery (that wound up not happening). About 120 miles later, the oil light came on, & yep, the oil pan had been punctured. Almost miraculously, I was only about 10 miles from my dad's hometown, so my cousin was able to come get me. I remember that the garage I contacted via my auto club (Montgomery Ward!) charged only about $70 for about a 5-mile tow & a new (or maybe it was a salavage part, but even so) oil pan, which even 24 years ago was cheap as hell.

A co-worker of mine at the Slidell paper went from there to the Town Talk, if memory serves, or maybe that's where she came from.